tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34249799.comments2019-01-20T06:19:30.016+13:00AmeriNZ BlogArthur Schenckhttps://plus.google.com/110538233989093067342noreply@blogger.comBlogger4974125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34249799.post-73023876707517382722015-07-27T13:31:01.382+12:002015-07-27T13:31:01.382+12:00In the Hillary crashes scenario I think it is impo...In the Hillary crashes scenario I think it is important to remember that there is an establishment alternative around: Joe Biden. Yes, he is not the perfect candidate, but his credentials are better than any of the alternatives, and his baggage load pales in comparison to Hill&#39;s. Plus, he is an insider-survivor, no mean fete for someone who has been around as long as he has. He could very well be the Hubert Humphrey of this cycle. Let&#39;s not forget, HHH nearly won, and would have had it not been for Vietnam. His &quot;story&quot; is as compelling as you can get. He&#39;s a liberal who does not scare middle American, he even makes them chuckle on occasion. His only negative is he is decidedly not the candidate of change, and any administration overstays its welcome after 8 years. <br /><br />As far as Warren goes, I&#39;ve never seen a candidate succeed at making the public &quot;beg&quot; them to run -- not even Teddy Kennedy could get away with that (exception: Dwight Eisenhower ... and Warren is not the Allied Commander).<br /><br />My heart may be with Bernie Sanders, I cheer every time he says what candidates SHOULD BE UNIVERSALLY SAYING. But, so did George McGovern, who carried one state in 1972. Being right has never been a sure thing in American politics. The wing nuts would have a field day with Sanders&#39; former identification as a &quot;Socialist&quot; politician -- might play in Burlington, definitely would not play in Peoria. <br /><br />As a FORMER Republican, I can only say the party is getting worse every cycle. Let&#39;em nominate Trump. It&#39;d make the Goldwater debacle look like a close race.Tim Drakenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34249799.post-64922051135108224802015-07-26T14:42:29.656+12:002015-07-26T14:42:29.656+12:00Good question! So good, it gets its own post.Good question! So good, it gets its own post.Arthur Schenck (AmeriNZ)http://amerinz.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34249799.post-77888583010862451272015-07-26T00:01:44.149+12:002015-07-26T00:01:44.149+12:00Much more than BENGHAZI!, I worry about the email ...Much more than BENGHAZI!, I worry about the email thing. She could - probably won&#39;t, but COULD - be indicated, I understand. <br /><br /><br />OH, I JUST THOUGHT OF ANOTHER QUESTION. If Hillary could NOT be the Democratic nominee, because of some legal problem, who would be? Who should be? Would it come out of the present collection? Or Clinton disciple Kirsten Gillibrand? Or would they exhume Al Gore from the crypt?rogerogreennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34249799.post-63747369186806833032015-07-24T10:22:36.183+12:002015-07-24T10:22:36.183+12:00Funnily enough, she really was talking to me—quite...Funnily enough, she really <i>was</i> talking to me—quite a lot. In some other photos, she got up on her back legs to try and sniff my phone. But what she was saying was,&quot;I know you just fed me, but you&#39;re going to give me more food now, right? <b><i>RIGHT?!</i></b>&quot;Arthur Schenck (AmeriNZ)http://amerinz.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34249799.post-24202744975859393882015-07-24T08:27:18.472+12:002015-07-24T08:27:18.472+12:00Arthur, can&#39;t you speak Cat? Look at her, she&...Arthur, can&#39;t you speak Cat? Look at her, she&#39;s saying &quot;ugg, this water is a funny colour, can&#39;t you change it?&quot;...Sandra Newtonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34249799.post-81316101563026383202015-07-21T18:17:37.487+12:002015-07-21T18:17:37.487+12:00I seem to recall someone once declaring, &quot;Jes...I seem to recall someone once declaring, &quot;Jesus wants us to share!&quot; But, I&#39;ll gladly share, even though I&#39;m a non-theist. ;-) Actually, to be honest, I&#39;m not much into sweets any more. This is a good thing, considering how hard it is to lose weight and make sure it stays lost (usually I take the weight on a long drive to a remote area, but it keeps finding its way back!).<br /><br />Seriously, I actually remember as a kid mentioning to Mom that it was my half birthday (or some other fraction…), but she was completely unimpressed and didn&#39;t share my enthusiasm for celebrating it. Imagine that! ;-)Arthur Schenck (AmeriNZ)http://amerinz.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34249799.post-77367914425700814032015-07-21T18:12:03.698+12:002015-07-21T18:12:03.698+12:00Of course you did… ;-)Of <i>course</i> you did… ;-)Arthur Schenck (AmeriNZ)http://amerinz.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34249799.post-14291187297108054022015-07-21T16:02:12.230+12:002015-07-21T16:02:12.230+12:00Happy half birthday to you!!! I had never heard o...Happy half birthday to you!!! I had never heard of that until a couple of years ago and I thought it was a good idea. People often take their birthday off from work and coworkers don&#39;t get the chance to plan and have a celebration for the &quot;birthday child&quot;. Instead, celebrating the half birthday allows all employees to be celebrated. Actually for me, birthdays are more than celebrating another year in one&#39;s life. It is also celebrating the day the person was born. The actual birthday or the half birthday is something worth celebrating. Since it&#39;s your half birthday, may I have the other half of that cupcake?? (A typical sister question.)AmeriNZ's sisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34249799.post-6561455168736932382015-07-21T13:47:18.292+12:002015-07-21T13:47:18.292+12:00Happy half birthday! I even wrote a post about mi...Happy half birthday! I even wrote a post about mine, which isn&#39;t until September 7.rogerogreennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34249799.post-40739378051225400362015-07-21T13:35:00.020+12:002015-07-21T13:35:00.020+12:00Pataki just isn&#39;t getting any traction, and co...Pataki just isn&#39;t getting any traction, and considering how far to the &quot;left&quot; he is—by Republican standards—he doesn&#39;t stand a chance of getting the nomination, so the only reason he&#39;d stay in is to give moderate Republicans someone to vote for rather than hold their noses are vote for the far-right idiot whose stench they think is the least strong.<br /><br />But, I think it&#39;ll all be a bit clearer after the Fox &quot;News&quot; Centre Ring Show on August 6.Arthur Schenck (AmeriNZ)http://amerinz.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34249799.post-8504587116812185042015-07-20T22:16:36.616+12:002015-07-20T22:16:36.616+12:00I don&#39;t know who, besides Pataki, and maybe Ji...I don&#39;t know who, besides Pataki, and maybe Jindal, will be off the carousel anytime soon. They REALLY want a woman to be running, the future debates haven&#39;t stated the limitations of who appears on stage; only the FOX debate did.rogerogreennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34249799.post-12390958245245032002015-07-18T03:37:38.899+12:002015-07-18T03:37:38.899+12:00WOW, Santorum is up, Perry is down! http://blog.ti...WOW, Santorum is up, Perry is down! http://blog.timesunion.com/rogergreen/your-republican-presidential-debate-participants-subject-to-change/5140/rogerogreennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34249799.post-29809600378138303572015-07-17T14:05:31.873+12:002015-07-17T14:05:31.873+12:00I&#39;ve already timed out on the number of LA Tim...I&#39;ve already timed out on the number of LA Times articles I can see in July.rogerogreennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34249799.post-62317494886343272042015-07-17T07:34:58.285+12:002015-07-17T07:34:58.285+12:00Sandra - here&#39;s a comparable: when I was growi...Sandra - here&#39;s a comparable: when I was growing up, our family always noted all the black folks on TV, Greg Morris in Mission: Impossible, Nichelle Nichols in Star Trek, Gail Fisher in Mannix and especially Bill Cosby in I Spy and Diahann Carroll in Julia, because there just weren&#39;t that many of &quot;us&quot; out there.rogerogreennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34249799.post-73560483679758832782015-07-16T21:52:43.851+12:002015-07-16T21:52:43.851+12:00The inanity of polling as the criteria is that a s...The inanity of polling as the criteria is that a serious candidate may need the exposure of the debates to make his (or her) case. Last time I looked, Trump was 8th or 9th. Now he&#39;s 2nd. And how is Ben Carson - &quot;he&#39;s black, but he&#39;s not Obama!&quot; - in 5h place?rogerogreennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34249799.post-26671266259690851652015-07-16T21:28:25.361+12:002015-07-16T21:28:25.361+12:00I keep going back and forth as to whether Trump (w...I keep going back and forth as to whether Trump (who will say ANYTHING for attention) or Walker is worse. I think I&#39;ve come down on the side of Walker who was such a schmuck to the public employees in Wisconsin. In other word, he has the greater proven record of being an asshole.<br />I think the argument that the governors collectively are making is true. Most of the members of Congress are just spewing rhetoric, though Cruz essentially shut down the federal government.rogerogreennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34249799.post-50418865562203543262015-07-16T21:06:42.177+12:002015-07-16T21:06:42.177+12:00It was the times…It was the times…Arthur Schenck (AmeriNZ)http://amerinz.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34249799.post-80904929230271748122015-07-16T21:06:25.733+12:002015-07-16T21:06:25.733+12:00It wasn&#39;t about liking them as a performer or ...It wasn&#39;t about liking them as a performer or not, but just about seeing my life and my reality reflected. As a kid, and later, as a closeted teen, I longed to see positive images that I could relate to, and there were none. While I was a pretty strong and resilient kid, it would have been enormously helpful to have such positive images.<br /><br />When there started to be openly gay performers of various sorts, I went through a period where I liked them a little bit more because they were gay—I revelled in finally seeing my reality reflected. But that was about people I knew were gay, not ones I wished were.<br /><br />There was another category of performers I might wish to be gay, and those were the guys I fancied when I was growing up. But that had nothing to do with liking them as a performer, and everything to do with just plain old fancying them.Arthur Schenck (AmeriNZ)http://amerinz.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34249799.post-37732436593080105192015-07-16T17:28:28.418+12:002015-07-16T17:28:28.418+12:00Why did you &#39;wish&#39; some performers were ga...Why did you &#39;wish&#39; some performers were gay? Not meaning to be confrontational, but what does a performer&#39;s (or anyone else for that matter) sexual orientation matter to whether you like what they do/sing etc?Sandra Newtonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34249799.post-78272481232964804982015-07-15T22:06:51.876+12:002015-07-15T22:06:51.876+12:00I just happened to catch this Behind the Music thi...I just happened to catch this Behind the Music thing with Hall &amp; Oates, who were glammed up by this French cover artist, and they went with it.rogerogreennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34249799.post-2309484980390995602015-07-06T19:33:38.220+12:002015-07-06T19:33:38.220+12:00I HATE change! All of those quarters and nickels ...I HATE change! All of those quarters and nickels just weigh me down!<br />Oh, wait, never mind.rogerogreennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34249799.post-53755378948223967172015-07-04T21:53:38.567+12:002015-07-04T21:53:38.567+12:00Thanks! Like I said in the post, I find it easier ...Thanks! Like I said in the post, I find it easier now there are so many good approximations available, but Martha&#39;s Backyard is a good resource, too (and some of the products they sell are sometimes from Canada). Whenever I&#39;ve been there, I&#39;ve seen Americans, of course, but also Canadians and many Filipinos, too.Arthur Schenck (AmeriNZ)http://amerinz.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34249799.post-18149633461632657582015-07-04T21:51:01.476+12:002015-07-04T21:51:01.476+12:00As I often say, you can take the boy out of the US...As I often say, you can take the boy out of the USA, but you can&#39;t take the USA out of the boy!Arthur Schenck (AmeriNZ)http://amerinz.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34249799.post-14346632050168505772015-07-04T20:57:56.439+12:002015-07-04T20:57:56.439+12:00It&#39;s difficult to stay connected with My Home ...It&#39;s difficult to stay connected with My Home and Native Land -- which celebrates July 1 as Canada Day. The food is probably the most difficult thing of the lot. American food is an excellent approximation, tho&#39;, as many Canadians shop across the border anyway, and make the July 1 -- July 4 season into one long party.<br /><br />Happy Independence Day, Arthur! Cheers!DaChieftainnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34249799.post-10838704719024637162015-07-04T20:33:52.148+12:002015-07-04T20:33:52.148+12:00You ARE a Yankee Doodle boy!You ARE a Yankee Doodle boy!rogerogreennoreply@blogger.com